Google Gears is software offered by Google that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser. One of it`s feature is that it provides a LocalServer module that caches and serves application resources like HTML, JavaScript, images, etc. There are a number of applications that use Google Gears, including Google`s latest GMail Offline Version.

The beauty of the LocalServer module is that since it caches application resources, as mentioned above, we could actually use this cache to recover any file that might have been deleted from your computer and was once used by you in some Gear enabled app. So here we will provide you with the location to the Google Gear cache for various OSes and browsers, so that you could navigate to the particular folder and pull you lost content out 🙂

The LocalServer stores files that your application captures in a location determined by the browser and platform. Take a note of the fact that in most cases the AppData / Application Data folder is a system hidden folder. You need to make it viewable first in order to navigate further!